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Kai Ryssdal

Host and Senior Editor

Kai is the host and senior editor of “Marketplace,” the most widely heard program on business and the economy — radio or television, commercial or public broadcasting — in the country. Kai speaks regularly with CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, startup entrepreneurs, small-business owners and everyday participants in the American and global economies. Before his career in broadcasting, Kai served in the United States Navy and United States Foreign Service. He’s a graduate of Emory University and Georgetown University. Kai lives in Los Angeles with his wife and four children.

Latest from Kai Ryssdal

  • I wanted to pick up on something from the show last night that went by pretty quickly. I was interviewing Rep. Peter DeFazio about the Senate bill…

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  • Oct 2, 2008

    Senate Bill…

    Some of you have written to say you can't find the link I was talking about at the end of the broadcast today — the one with the draft Senate bill…

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  • The CEO of the New York Stock Exchange said today he thinks the SEC's going to extend some kind of short selling protection to all publicy trade…

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  • …is good for Wall Street….

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  • …if you still think the credit crunch isn't filtering down to consumers….

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  • It's been a couple of weeks since we've heard anybody say 'The fundamentals of the economy are sound.'…

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  • Oct 1, 2008

    If at first…

    Well, here's the headline from Reuters:Senate Agrees to Vote on Bailout…

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  •  House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) talks to reporters after the vote failed on the bailout situation on Capitol Hill September 29, 2008 in Washington DC. 
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    The Dow fell a dramatic 777 points today — the worst plunge in two decades — on news that the House rejected the $700 billion bailout plan. Kai Ryssdal asks two members of Congress to help make sense of it all.

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  • It's been a heck of a week, hasn't it? The deal was on. Then it was off. The economy was collapsing — but not yet, it seems. Kai Ryssdal talks with Katie Benner of Fortune magazine and David Leonhardt of The New York Times about all that's happened.

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  • Kai Ryssdal is in Cleveland, Ohio, where he sat in on a radio talk show that fielded calls from listeners about the federal bailout plan. Their anger came through loud and clear.

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